Drill jig



' W- w. c. WILLIAMS' 2,

- DRILL JIG I, I

Original Filed Ma 2 1942 INVENTOR. MAL/4 C. W

Arraewzx Patented Aug. 14, 1945 .g.UNITED -STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 DRILL JIG William 0. Williams, SantaMonica, Calif. Original application May 26, 1942, Serial No. 444,537." Divided and this application March "1s, 1944, Serial No. 527,076

1 Claim. (01.77-62) My invention relates. tofa fixture or jig and has particularreference to an adjustable drill guide by means of which holes may be drilled 1 in, an accurately locatedpredetermined position with respect to known reference lines or axes on the work-piece.

This application isfa division of mycopending application Serial No. 444,537, filed May 26, 1942, now forfeited, and entitled Drill jig.

In certain manufacturing industries such as,

for example, the aircraft manufacturing industry, certain of the fabricating or assembling operations give rise to the frequent necessity for changing the location of one of 'a plurality of holes in a workpiece.

As a rule this change in location is slight; that is,the new location of the hole is usually close to the old location. This introduces a considerable problem where layouts, templets, jigs and the like have all been prepared on the basis of the old location of the hole. It is the present practice to provide for drilling the hole in the new desired location by either manually ascertaining the new hole location and using a center punch to indicate that location on the workpiece, or changing all of the fixtures, jigs or templets used in the drilling or prefabricating process to make such jigs conform to the new location of the hole that has been moved. Alternatively, a special jig can be built for drilling the one hole that has been moved.

The disadvantages attendant upon following any one of these courses of procedure is evident. The manual layout method occasions a considerable loss of time and requires the inefficient services of one or more men. 'To' change or rebuild all of the fixtures or jigs is obviously an expensive and time-consuming operation. If a special jig is used for the one hole involved, that ,jig is useless for any other operation involved in the manufacturing program and must, of course, be dis- I vide a drill guide, which overcomes the above noted disadvantages by providing anadjustable means for readily and accurately positioning a drill guide of substantially any selected sizeatsubstantially any desired location relative-to the origin of previously established reference axes of a workpiece.

It is .a still further object of my invention to hereinbefore which includes a means for accurately positioning a drill guide in such relation to the reference axes of the workpiece as to dispose the drill guide axis in any desired location relative thereto. v 1

Other objects and advantages of my invention willbe apparent from a study. of the following specifications, read in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view of a device constructed in accordance withan embodiment of my invention and intended particularly to'be used in the locating of holes in a workpiece;

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view taken substantially along the line 11-11 of Fig. 1 and illustrating additional details of construction;

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the geometrical principles involved in the operation of the form of the device which is illustrated in Fig. l and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional View taken substantially. along the line IV--IV of Fig. 1 and illustrating a type of locking arrangement for the drill guide proper which may be employed on the form of the device illustrated in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, I have illustrated in Fig. 1 the preferred embodiment of my invention as comprising an adjustable drill guide which may be used to shift the location of the hole to be drilled by any desired amount and in any desired direction with respect to reference axes 6 and 8 ion a workpiece I.

radius, making any desired angle with thelongiu provide a drill guide of the character set forth Q5 tudinal reference line 6. This structure is illustrated in plan in Fig. 1 and in cross section in Fig. 2-as comprising a base member 3 carrying index lines 4, 4 and l, l for use in locating the base 3 on the workpiece l with respect to the reference lines 6 and 8. The intersection of lines drawn between the index marks 4 and between the index marks I defines a vertical axis I0 of the device. A guiding bore 41 is drilled in the base 3 concentrically with respect to the vertical axis The outer member l 2a carries a protractor ring 12a with respect to an index 38.

Ala carrying graduations 40a to indicate the angular position of the outer rotatable member The index 38 is carried by an adjustable protractor ring 9 mounted on the base 3 within a groove l8. An index 34 is provided on the base 3 for use with the angular :graduations on the protractor ring 9. A clamping screw 30 may be used to lock the ring 9 against inadvertent shifting.

The outer rotatable member l2a is provided with a longitudinally extending bore 69 which' inner member includes a horizontal upper sure face 12 and an inclined peripheral surface 73 which is provided with graduations 14 adapted to coact with an index and index plate 15 secured to the outer member H211 to indicate the angular positioning of the member [3a with respect to the member I211.

The member I3a is provided with a drill guide receiving bore 16, the axis of which extends vertically and parallel to the axes l and Ill but offset from the axis 'mby the aforementioned distance R. The drill guide receiving aperture 16 is adapted to receive any one of a plurality of drill guide members [6, each of such members 16 being identical with the others except for the diameter of the drill guiding aperture llv which is defined by the drill guide I6, the guiding aperture ll of each of the members l6 corresponding to the difierent sizes of drills with whichthe guide is to be used.

Each of the drill guides I6 is preferably removably secured to the inner member l3a. when placed in operative position therein so as to prevent upward movement of the member l6 during the time the drill is being used and also prevent rotation of the drill guide member I6 within the drill guide receiving bore 16 as a result of the frictional engagement of the rotating drill with the drill guiding aperture 11. Accordingly I provide a shoulder screw 62 (see Figs. 1 and 4) which includes a threaded shank portion 63 screwedinto the upper plane surface 12 of the inner member I 3a and which includes also a cylindrical shoulder portion 64 having a diameter somewhat exceeding the diameter of the shank portion. 63 and including also a head portion 65 of cylindrical form having a diameter somewhat exceeding the diameter of the shoulder 64. The side surface of a headportion SI of the drill guide It is preferably cut away as shown to form apartially cylindrical axially extending groove 68 to receive the head 65 and permit the drill guide I6 to be moved longitudinally in the bore '16 past the screw 62.

The cut away portion of the head 6| serves also to define a radially extending flange 61 adapted to pass beneath the head 65 so that by inserting the drill guide in the bore '16 to permit the screw head 65 to pass along the channel 66 and by then turning the drill guide I6, the flange 61 may be caused to pass under the head 65 and prevent upward movement of the guide. The cut away portion of the drill guide terminates in a shoulder 68 adapted to bear against the'head 65 and prevent rotation of the drill guide.- V

In order that the tworotatable members [2a position, the cylindrical portion act the outer member l2a is provided with a circumferentially extending recess 11 adapted to receive the end of .a lockin screw 48. A similar recess 18 is formed in the cylindrical portion H of the inner member I 3a to receive an inner member locking screw 19 threaded into the outer member It will be noted that this structure permits the axis of the drill guiding aperture I! to be moved from a position coincident with the vertical axis ill to a position spacing the axis of the drill guiding aperture l1 from the vertical axis Ill by a variable amount, the maximum value of which is equal to 2R.

I have illustrated in Fig. 3 the geometrical relationships involved in the operation of the device. It will be noted that in Fig. 3 the reference character 0 is employed to indicate the intersection of the vertical axis I0 with the surface of the workpiece I, this intersection being arbitrarily positioned at the intersection of the reference lines 6 and 8 which are inscribed on the surface of the workpiece.

The circle identified by the reference character in Fig. 3 represents the path of movement of the axis 10 occasioned by the rotation of the outer rotatable'member I2a. The location of the axis 10 is identified by that reference character in Fig. 3 when the outer member l2a is rotated in a clockwise direction through an angle y. The circle identified by reference character 8| in Fig. 3 represents the path of movement of the drill guiding axis 0 occasioned by rotation of the inner member 13a after the outer member In is moved to and held in a position disposing the axis 10 in the location illustrated in Fig. 3.

The reference character ll represents the location of the axis 0 occasioned by rotating the inner member 13a through an angle 2 with respect to the then position of the outer member l2a, the angle a being arbitrarily selected as that which will position the axis ll on the longitudinal reference line 6. The dimension X indicated in Fig. 3 is used to represent the radial distance between the original origin 0 and the axis 0', the axis 0 indicating the new origin or location at which the hole drilled by a drill guided by the drill guide [6 will be drilled.

The magnitude of the angles y and 2 required to produce a radial offset distance X between the points 0 and 0 may be ascertained from the following equations:

- where X represents the desired offset distance set to a-position corresponding to the angle 1/ and locked in that position by means of the locking screw 48 and then the inner member l3a is rotated in the same direction through the angle 2: and locked in that position by means of the locking screw 19. This will serve to position the new origin 0 on the longitudinal reference line 6 and if it is desired to extend the ascertained to be 4710.

protractor ring .9 is turned in the desired direc- "tion until the desired angle of 45 is indicated by the index 34 and then looked in that position pos'ite the index 38.

radialofi'set line at an angle to the reference line 6, it is only necessary to first turn the outer 'pr'otractor ring 9 to that desired angular position andlock the same in such position by means of the locking screw 30 before the rotatable members l2a and l3a are moved to their desired positions. I

The operation of the device can perhaps be better understood by considering a numerical" example: Example Assume that it is desired to shift the origin 0;-

to a new location 0 spaced 0.1.00" from the original'location of the origin 0 and in such location as to make an angle of 45 With the reference line 6 Assume further that the offset distance R between the variousaxes is equal to 0.125".

From equation (1) above, angle'y is ascertained to ;be;6625'. From equation (2) angle 2 is Thereupon the outer by'means of the thumb screw 30.. Thereupon I the outer member I2a is rotated in either direction to a. positionsuch that the ascertained anglelof 6625 is indicated by. the scale ltla op-' After looking the outer memberl2a in such position by means of the locking screw 48,"the

' innerfmember 13a is rotated in the same direction as the. outer member In was rotated and 'to a position such that the ascertained angle of at an angle of 45 with respectto the reference Thereafter a drill guide [6 of the desired line 6. size may beinserted in the drill guide receiving bore 16 and the device employed to drill a hole centered at the location of the new origin 0.

. From the foregoing it will be observed that I have provided a novel drill jig or drill guide by -means of which the axis of the hole drilled and guided by the device may be positioned as desired with respect to the reference lines marked on the workpiece and identifying the original desired location of the hole. I

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, I do not desire to' be limited to any. of the details of construction shown or described herein, except as defined in the appended claim.

I claim: In a fixture, the combination of: an inner bushing defining a toolguiding line; an outer bushing; means mounting said inner bushing on said outer bushing for rotation about an axis extending parallel to but spaced from said tool guiding line; 'protractor means associated with said inner bushing and with said outer bushing for measuring the angular position of said inner bushing relative to said'outer bushing; a base member; means mounting said outerbushing on said base member for rotation about another axisextending parallel to butspaced from the I axis of rotation of saidinner bushing; an ad- 4710 is indicated by the scale I4 opposite the index I5. vThe inner member I3a is then looked in that adjusted position by means of the screw 19; This operation serves to position the axis- 0 at a distance of 0.100 from'the origin 0 defined by the intersection of the reference lines I 6 and 8 and serves also to extend the line 00 tractor scale positioned to cooperate with said other index. I

WILLIAM C. WILLIAMS 

